A strange little side quest
The mechanics around Cure The Bunny have roots that stretch far beyond modern browsers. M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. The same trail leads to another fact: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. That long chain of experiments is part of why simulation games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.